Re: [Evolution-hackers] compression for folders?

[Ray Lee <ray madrabbit org>]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:09, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> clearly zcat is doing something funky because gzip files have an 8byte
> footer that would foul up any code that tried to read that file if it
> were mbox.

It's not doing anything funky. The gzip format (which is different than
the compress format) is a concatenation of 'members,' each of which is a
compressed chunk. It knows when to stop by when it hits EOF.

> it's not trivial to do what zcat does.

That's why the powers that be gave us zlib :-).

> besides, note "archive". yes, compressing archive folders was never
> the issue, the issue was compressing all folders.

My bad, I missed the context there.

Ray